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Marton New Plymouth Line [0D]: Project Progress Report [4]
Quick update on the MNPL. Have been doing a few different things this week but today I started working back from New Plymouth and Waitara back to Stratford putting in the detail over 50 km of route so that part is completed which is pretty good as it would only take a few more days…
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Waiau Branch [9A]: Rotherham Station
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Waiau Branch [9A]: Rotherham Station
Rotherham was the ninth station on the Waiau Branch. Using the information from pages 205 to 207 of Les Dew’s book, “The Great Northern”, we can see that it was a very ordinary station that was operated over a 63 year period – from 1915 to 1978 when the line was closed. When the line…
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Waiau Branch [0A]: Series numbering for Waiau Branch articles
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Waiau Branch [0A]: Series numbering for Waiau Branch articles
We have decided to produce a series of aerial photos for the stations on the Waiau Branch. This will be spasmodic with no set timetable and will be fitted around our existing production schedule. There was no schedule planned originally but because the stations are so small and simple, I have completed a set of…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0D]: Project Progress Report [3]
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0D]: Project Progress Report [3]
Yesterday’s pause to install a new script to speed up the sectioning of aerial photo layers from Linz turned out to be quite a quick operation to complete, and has enabled the aerial photo selection for the rest of the MNPL project to be sped right up. As a result we now have 99% of…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0C]: Project Progress Report [2]
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0C]: Project Progress Report [2]
Following my last post I have nevertheless pushed on with the maps, making life considerably easier for myself by breaking up the workflows. Instead of having a slow, frustrating and often tedious workflow of doing everything in one go, I have the first pass in pegging out the corridor route, and the second pass filling…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0B]: Progress Report
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